Posted on 01/05/2009 6:51:51 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Pat lives in the illusion that at the end of the day the Arab Muslim miltants are “not” against even people like him...
Buchanan is missing part of his brain.
Pat was at one time pro Israel.
Pat is mostly wrong about everything, all the time.
Pat was
Hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars annually go to outright terrorist organizations (the PLO, Fatah, and indirectly Hamas), and Buchanan is silent. But helping Israel - the only western democracy in the region and one of the few nations on earth willing to take the fight to Islamofascists - somehow just burns Pat up.
Patsy is a great political analyst, but is out near Chomskyville sometimes on Foreign Policy. Hey Pat, did you know that our common hero, Robert Taft, was an early supporter of Israel?
Pat Buchanan believes that the USA need not have sacrificed lives for Europe.
He asked the following questions ( and I quote ) :
“When one considers the losses suffered by Britain and France – hundreds of thousands dead, destitution, bankruptcy, the end of the empires – was World War II worth it, considering that Poland and all the other nations east of the Elbe were lost anyway?
If the objective of the West was the destruction of Nazi Germany, it was a “smashing” success. But why destroy Hitler? If to liberate Germans, it was not worth it. After all, the Germans voted Hitler in.
If it was to keep Hitler out of Western Europe, why declare war on him and draw him into Western Europe? If it was to keep Hitler out of Central and Eastern Europe, then, inevitably, Stalin would inherit Central and Eastern Europe.
Was that worth fighting a world war – with 50 million dead?
The war Britain and France declared to defend Polish freedom ended up making Poland and all of Eastern and Central Europe safe for Stalinism. And at the festivities in Moscow, Americans and Russians were front and center, smiling – not British and French. Understandably.”
Last I heard, we were only up to about 550.
More of the same type.
The Third Party loons and Paleos are right out of DU
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2159131/posts?page=91
Ron Paul: Israel had US OK for war on Gaza (Ron Paul sides with Hamas)
Biblical times?
“Pat was at one time pro Israel.”
Compared to the American Jew, Pat is a downright Zionist!
I have been reading a fair amount of Richard Maybury’s work recently and do understand what you are saying. Maybury also says that if we had stayed out, Russians would have taken out the Germans easily. There did not need to be a second front.
Gee. Yathink?
I respectfully disagree. I think it is important to hear various perspectives. I am not reading articles to feed my confirmation bias. I want to be challenged. I think Pat Buchanan is a very smart man and is often spot on in his observations. This is not one of those times. I am not even certain Pat even believes what he wrote. Pat is an old political operative and he could be baiting Obama.
I would not be so quick to say that.
Pat sure promotes a lot of leftist ideas.
Pat was at one time pro Israel. Somewhere along the line, he switched and turned into a Pro Arab activist.
Selected Quotations from columns by Patrick J, Buchanan
*On the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, 6/25/82
“Politically, mankind suffered no irreversible loss with the sweeping of the PLO from the international chess board. As virulently anti-American as it was anti-Israeli, the PLO has been a Soviet cat’s-paw, the linchpin of international terror, the base camp for the worst elements on earth, a friend to every enemy of the United States from the Sandinistas in Nicaragua to Idi Amin in Uganda.”
*On the state of Israel, 1983
“Israel remains a tough, resourceful, energetic nation, an offspring of the West . . . whose current struggle merits sympathy and support.”
*On the Israeli strike against Iraqi nuclear reactor, 6/11/81
“From a security perspective, the Israelis’ preemptive strike against the Iraqi nuclear reactor outside Baghdad was timely and crucial.
..Given the implacable hatred of Baghdad for Israel— the nation is referred to only as “The Zionist Entity” — the prospect, indeed, the probability of atomic weapons in Iraqi hands, was one with which the Israelis literally could not live.
..righteous United States condemnation of Israel, a small sliver of land with three major cities, rings hollow. How, for example, would we expect President Reagan and Secretary of State Haig to act if weapons-grade material were being fed into a Soviet-built Cuban reactor, with Castro declaring: ‘This one is for the Yankees.
..what Israeli could go to sleep secure with revanchist Palestinians a few miles away nursing their hatred of the ‘Zionist imperialists’ who destroyed their homeland and drove their fathers and mothers into refugee camps?”
*On the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights, 12/17/85
“It would not be at all unreasonable if the Israelis came to the conclusion that their survival, more than ever, depends upon themselves alone. If a majority in that country have arrived at such a conclusion, it is natural to seek security in geography and guns, not treaties and talk.
..The militants — Syria, Libya, Iraq, the military wing of the PLO — will settle for nothing less than eradication of the “Zionist entity” from the Arab world. Within Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, there are millions more for whom the humbling and destruction of the Jewish state is a nightly dream. Even the “moderate” governments in the region — Egypt, for example — could probably not survive a permanent peace which left East Jerusalem under Israeli control.”
My source is the Buchanan Press release in 1996 shown on the following website:
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/b/buchanan-pat/buchanan-on-buchanan.html
No- Buchanan is just like Bush I who refused to allow Israel to defend themselves during the first gulf war. He doesn’t hate Jews or even Israel, he just finds their existence to be problematic to his ideas of Mid East policy-pacify the Arabs and keep the oil flowing.
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